Appium vs Karma

Appium vs Karma: What are the differences?

Appium: Automation for iOS and Android Apps. Appium is an open source test automation framework for use with native, hybrid, and mobile web apps. It drives iOS and Android apps using the WebDriver protocol. Appium is sponsored by Sauce Labs and a thriving community of open source developers; Karma: Spectacular Test Runner for JavaScript. Karma is not a testing framework, nor an assertion library. Karma just launches a HTTP server, and generates the test runner HTML file you probably already know from your favourite testing framework. So for testing purposes you can use pretty much anything you like.

Appium and Karma are primarily classified as "Mobile Testing Frameworks" and "Browser Testing" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by Appium are:

• Works on native and hybrid mobile apps
• Write mobile tests using any language or framework
• Open source

On the other hand, Karma provides the following key features:

• Test on Real Devices
• Remote Control
• Testing Framework Agnostic

"Webdriverio support" is the top reason why over 5 developers like Appium, while over 56 developers mention "Test Runner" as the leading cause for choosing Karma.

Appium and Karma are both open source tools. It seems that Karma with 10.7K GitHub stars and 1.61K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Appium with 9.66K GitHub stars and 3.94K GitHub forks.

Typeform, Accenture, and Sellsuki are some of the popular companies that use Karma, whereas Appium is used by Intuit, PedidosYa, and A+E Networks. Karma has a broader approval, being mentioned in 119 company stacks & 57 developers stacks; compared to Appium, which is listed in 31 company stacks and 21 developer stacks.